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SUMMARY:NorthWoods Guild Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Registration is closed.\n$50 registration fee for full 2 days\, or $25/day. Meals and lodging included.  \nOctober 6\, 2023\, @ 9:00 am – October 7\, 2023 @ 3:00 pm Eastern Time \nNorthWoods Stewardship Center\, 154 Leadership Drive\, East Charleston\, VT \n9\, Category 1 SAF CFE credits approved (4.5 each day). \nAgenda for download \nWe welcome Guild members to join us for a Guild Gathering in the forests of the Northeastern Kingdom of Vermont with our hosts\, NorthWoods Stewardship Center. We will visit Mud Pond and the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge in the Nulhegan Basin Division to discuss climate driven silviculture. We will learn from managers and researchers about Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) study sites\, forest birds\, managing ash with emerald ash borer\, old growth forests\, post-industrial management\, and spruce-fir silvicultur \nAccommodation is available at the Northwoods Stewardship Center near their Guild Model Forest in Charleston\, Vermont\, where forest managers enhance wildlife habitat\, timber quality\, education\, and recreational opportunities.  \nAgenda overview: \nFriday\, October 6th    \n9 – 10:00 a.m.: Arrival\, sign-in\, coffee/snacks\, catch up with old friends at Caspian Beach parking lot in Greensboro\, Vermont \n10:00 a.m.: Intro circle \n10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Carpools\, field tours\, and lunch provided in the field at Noon \n5:00 – 7:00 p.m.: NorthWoods Stewardship Center social hour and dinner \n7:00 p.m.: NorthWoods Stewardship Center forestry program overview \n7:30 p.m.: Adjourn \nSaturday\, October 7th    \n7 – 8:00 a.m.: Breakfast \n8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Carpool or individual travel to Refuge Visitor Center for field tour and lunch provided in the field at Noon \n12:30 p.m.: Optional Degraded Site field tour led by Jeremy Goetz (people driving individually can leave from here if they wish) \n2:00 p.m.: Carpool back to the visitor center. You can leave from there\, or van back to NorthWoods Stewardship Center if you left your car there. \nLodging info: A few options are available at no cost. Please indicate your lodging needs when registering\, as spots are limited: \n\nThe Bunkhouse at the NorthWoods Stewardship Center is a shared space that sleeps 16 people. Bunks are separated into nooks that sleep 4 people each. There are two bathrooms with showers\, a common area\, woodstove\, and a kitchen space with a minifridge\, microwave\, and coffee pot. Please BYO pillows\, linens\, and towels.  \nThere are plenty of tent camping spots and space for small campers/RVs. In the tent camping area there is an outdoor pavilion kitchen and outhouse. Campers can also have access to the common space and facilities in the bunkhouse. If you would like to bring your own camper please reach out to NorthWoods staff at forestry@northwoodscenter.org to reserve a parking space.  \n\nTravel and hike info: We will have NorthWoods Stewardship Center vans available for carpooling. We will be traveling on lightly managed dirt roads. We will be walking over uneven terrain. \nPlease bring: \n\nyour own water bottle\,\nsnacks\,\nfootware that can get muddy and wet\,\ninsect repellent and/or bug net\,\nsunscreen\,\nif staying overnight\, necessary items (bunk house requires sleeping gear and is a heated space. Camping requires your own camp gear).\n\nThanks to Northwoods for these photos! 
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/northwoods-guild-gathering/
CATEGORIES:Guild Gathering,Northeast
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SUMMARY:Climate Adaptation and Forest Carbon training
DESCRIPTION:Applications are due September 1\, 2023 with a limit of 50 chosen. Read on for details. \nDate: October 11 – 12\, 2023 \nLocation: Gardner\, Massachusetts \nDescription: A new 2-day graduate level Northeast Silviculture Institute for Foresters training session on climate adaptation and forest carbon. This Module will include two mornings of classroom training and two afternoons of field training. The entire Module will be videotaped and made available to anyone – attendees and all others – after the training session. \nSpeakers for this Institute Module include: William Van Doren\, Massachusetts Dept. of Conservation and Recreation; Dr. Alexandra Kosiba\, VT Extension Forester\, Dr. Robert Seymour\, Professor emeritus\, Univ. of Maine; Dr. Matt Russell\, Arbor Custom Analytics; Samantha Myers Fellow\, USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub; Dr. Tony D’Amato\, University of Vermont; Dr. David King\, University of Massachusetts; Steve Roberge\, UNH Extension Forester; Joelle Vautour & Keith DiNardo of MA DCR & Charles Levesque of the North East State Foresters Association and Innovative Natural Resource Solutions\, LLC. \nApplication instructions: if you are interested in attending the training\, you must complete this application. \n\nFirst\, download the file and include your name in the file title as you save it to your hard drive.\nPublic sector employees with state forestry agencies in New England and New York should not use this application – instead\, they should contact their supervisor about attending.\nThe application is a fillable PDF file and due by email only no later than September 1\, 2023.\nIf you choose to fill it out as a PDF file on your computer\, please save the file with a file name that includes your name. If you fill it out by hand\, please scan and send in via email. Either way\, please send to levesque@inrsllc.com.\n\nWhy do you need to complete an application in order to be considered for the Institute Module training? There are only 50 seats available at this training and if more applications are received than seats available\, those asked to register for the training will be chosen on merit based on the application answers. \nQuestions? Email to Charles Levesque at levesque@inrsllc.com. \nA reminder – in 2017 and 2018\, the Northeast Silviculture Institute for Foresters held 10 days of graduate level training (each year) on various silviculture topics for the forest types in the northeast U.S.  Those 10 days of training were all filmed and are still available. See all the Northeast Silviculture Institute for Foresters materials online. \nNote: The Institute workshops are designed to provide northeast U.S. foresters with the appropriate knowledge to make sound\, science-based decisions for forest ecosystem management\, harvests and regeneration. This project is designed so it can be used in the USDA Forest Service’s National Advanced Silviculture Program (NASP) to provide landscape-specific materials for northeast forests. The Institute offers a graduate program level of instruction for practicing foresters.  Funding support has been provided by the USDA Forest Service State & Private Forestry and many private funders.
URL:https://foreststewardsguild.org/event/climate-adaptation-and-forest-carbon-training/
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